RHINO-VR体験：インタラクティブな博物館展示で移動ロボティクスの概念を教える
RHINO-VR Experience: Teaching Mobile Robotics Concepts in an Interactive Museum Exhibit
1997年に博物館で案内ロボットとして活躍したRHINOをVR空間で再現し、来館者が操作を通じて移動ロボティクスの基本概念を学べる展示システムを開発・評価した。
著者: Erik Schlachhoff, Nils Dengler, Leif Van Holland, Patrick Stotko, Jorge de Heuvel, Reinhard Klein, Maren Bennewitz
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
In 1997, the very first tour guide robot RHINO was deployed in a museum in Germany. With the ability to navigate autonomously through the environment, the robot gave tours to over 2,000 visitors. Today, RHINO itself has become an exhibit and is no longer operational. In this paper, we present RHINO-VR, an interactive museum exhibit using virtual reality (VR) that allows museum visitors to experience the historical robot RHINO in operation in a virtual museum. RHINO-VR, unlike static exhibits, enables users to familiarize themselves with basic mobile robotics concepts without the fear of damaging the exhibit. In the virtual environment, the user is able to interact with RHINO in VR by pointing to a location to which the robot should navigate and observing the corresponding actions of the robot. To include other visitors who cannot use the VR, we provide an external observation view to make RHINO visible to them. We evaluated our system by measuring the frame rate of the VR simulation, comparing the generated virtual 3D models with the originals, and conducting a user study. The user-study showed that RHINO-VR improved the visitors' understanding of the robot's functionality and that they would recommend experiencing the VR exhibit to others.
